单词 | overhearer |
释义 | overhearern. A person who overhears. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener > overhearer overhearer1581 fly on the wall1949 1581 B. Rich Don Simonides I. 98 Simonides (our curtiouse Hermite) hauyng with greate sorrowe, bin ouerhearer to the wofull tale of poore and louyng Titerus. 1652 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra ii. 88 To avoid overhearers in a matter of that secrecy. 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 319 This is the third time..that I have appeared in the very equivocal character of an over-hearer. 1880 Scribner's Monthly July 389/2 A secret overhearer might have followed, by these occasional exclamatory utterances, the course of a devouring trouble prowling up and down through his thought. 1928 Biometrika 20B 30 Now that might be the way an onlooker and overhearer would report what happened; but it is distinctly not the way Darnley would report what happened. 1982 Notes & Queries Apr. 170/2 This ‘intuition’ leads to a consideration of the very special demands which the divine ‘overhearer’ makes upon literature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1581 |
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